23andMe CEO and Founder Anne Wojcicki 23andMe, the Google-backed personal genetics startup, will no longer just sell tests to consumers, or genetic data to pharmaceutical companies. This morning, it announced that it plans to start inventing medicines itself (...)

The researchers working with Apple, too, believe that that company’s new research tools can change the way medical science advances, making patients more involved.

Olivier Janin's insight:

This sounds like an evidence to me. The connected digital health can sense millions of drug consumers and will allow u to calculate from wide-scaled clusters the adapted tailor-made medication at individual level.

Ubisoft, the maker of games like Assassin’s Creed, and healthtech startup Amblyotech have teamed up to create Dig Rush, a therapeutic video game that can help treat a condition known as “lazy eye.” With “lazy eye,” patients see out of one eye instead of two.

The title from the French game publisher is part of a trend of “games for health,” or those that can be used to treat health problems, and it is being unveiled today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Its creators say that the treatment is 90 percent effective, and it takes only four to six weeks to retrain your brain to use both eyes instead of one eye, based on clinical testing.

Amblyopia, or “lazy eye,” is where one eye dominates a person’s vision to the point where they don’t have much depth perception and see life effectively through a single eye. The condition affects 3 percent of the population, or about 9 million people in the U.S.

You're the CEO, the boss, the queen bee. And getting what you want out of your worker bees looks increasingly linked to how happy said worker bees are. You ask them how things are going. Send out surveys. But what you really want is stats, a 0-100 system of how happy the worker bees…

Olivier Janin's insight:

I am surprised by the type of patterns recognition algorithms they embed in this badge. Their B2B offer (€700 per employee) gives a good price point reference to this type of proposal.

Last month, the FDA released new guidance regarding the regulation of mobile medical apps, to replace its earlier version from 2011. Since that time, the amount of health and medical apps on the market has exploded, with the release of Apple's Health app with iOS 8 cementing mobile health as 'a thing'. Needless to say, it is about time for a regulatory update.

Olivier Janin's insight:

I have been following the FDA regulation for 4 years, and it is dynamically adapting to the Technology run. It is a great example on how Legalists can regulate such disruptive technological innovation. Much faster than in Europe. Please France, accelerate !

The Wall Street Journal revealed tonight that many of the planned health features that Apple intended to include in its first-generation wearable were cut from the final product. Early reports on t...

Olivier Janin's insight:

Off course the Apple Watch may still offer a disruptive approach on the Smartwatch innovative segment (we hope so), also embedding Activity tracking features thanks to the Accelerometer and the dedicated App on the iOS Ecosystem.

But the lack of HR sensing tech (it seems that Apple went from PPG tech to bio-impedance solution), GSR feature, Temperature measurement, makes the value proposal under my expectations.

If these are not essential to the MVP ? I'm not sure. But being an iconic Apple product, there are great chances that Apple succeed to sell its 5 Millions units to the brand raving fans.

MMT (Manufacture Modules Technologies) is a new Swiss Joint Venture SARL formed by Fullpower Technologies of Silicon Valley and Union Horlogere Holdings. Its mission is to bring the MotionX Horological Smartwatch Open Platform to the Swiss watch industry.

The Pebble Time smartwatch has smashed the crowdfunding record, following a major boost since the Pebble Time Steel edition was added to the campaign. At the time of writing, the new Pebble smartwatch total stands at $14,360,712 - surpassing the $10,266,845 of the original Pebble and hitting a whopping 2,870% of the $500,000 goal. Essential…

Olivier Janin's insight:

Amazing !

Let's discover how Pebble succeed again to make such a good integration as they did for the Pebble 1.

Beside the Fitness Wearable giants like Fitbit or Jawbone, the Los-Angeles-based startup Jaha is trying to add a little spice with its new gamified and social smart band, which claims to help runners to “locate, challenge and motivate.”

Not so long ago, nearly every encounter with a doctor started with a receptionist waving a clipboard and asking me to take a seat. When I got into my doctor’s office, we‘d discuss the results from the blood test I’d taken the week before, my history and what I remembered [...]

Olivier Janin's insight:

Group President, Global Innovative Pharma Business at Pfizer shares his vision on how Digital Healthcare is pivoting to the Big Datas era.

Apple has asked its suppliers in Asia to make a combined five to six million units of its three Apple Watch models during the first quarter ahead of the product’s release in April, suggesting the company is hoping for sales on par with the 2010 debut of the iPad.

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